Quotes About Productivity

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I'm through a series, I'm so drained I don't want to get near the camera.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?